Stress: How to limit the damage

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Women who lead busy lives can suffer from stress. Here are ten ways to keep such lifestyle-related stress to a minimum

Stay positive
The journal Brain, Behavior, and Immunity reports how a survey of 36 healthy
women by scientists at the University of California, San Francisco, has
found that those who are markedly pessimistic show an accelerated rate of
telomere shortening.

Exercise
Regular vigorous workouts appear to protect telomeres, says a report in the
scientific journal PLoS One. The study of 63 women found that those who did
not exercise regularly for at least 150 minutes a week had a 15-fold
increase in the risk of telomere shortening.